Story of the Good

I have been taken to task by my three nephews over the business of the story of the Good, specifically when I asserted that only mankind may create a Story of the Good. The three A boys: Ayden, Austin, and Aloysius - pronounced Ah-loy'-shush -  who are animal activists... and I use "activist" in its most dilatory sense, hold that animals, too, may live a "moral" life.
The hagiographic section of my brain threw up a few images of Great White Sharks laying waste round about while chanting hymns, suddenly reminding me of the recent reference to the choir in The Lord of the Flies singing the Kyrie Eleison on a tropical beach.
I pondered.
Animals may have the urge to morality, but they have no recursive stories.
Our stories give us direction: stories and narrative are the guidebooks through the world created by consciousness; sometimes they are out-of-date, and sometimes they are incorrect, just as medieval cartological maps show Isles of the Blessed and Hy-Brazil where there is only sea.
The recursive part is memory: going back over what we have done, and feeding back experience into memory and refining our consciousness. When we have sailed over the wide Atlantic enough, we remove the Isles of the Blessed from the maps.

Although the activities of animals may actively change and be modified, their morality does not: it is immediate and non-recursive; their actions may change, but their "stories" do not, and there is no "history" of morality which is modified. There is no history of morals through time. Therefore, they are all casuists and Jesuits.

All our talk about the freedom of the Animal, the State of Nature, the freedom of Zen; all these things refer to a state of being which is immediate and free of the constraints of society: that is, free from the bonds we have created for ourselves.
Only story-creators could look upon their creations and see that such things can free them or imprison them..........

Original Sin is essentially the creation of the Idea and the development of the Story and the compiling of the History of Original Sin.

Or. if you prefer, Original Sin is Original Sin.
It is Sin, but not just a sin: rather a sin fed back upon consciousness and let to grow to critical mass, thereby becoming Sin.